On 22/10/2007, carlopmart <carlopmart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
>   I know that time to time somebody do the same question, but I need to know it:
> is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for OpenBSD
> 4.3 or 4.4???

It already exists. You can run OpenBSD DomUs (ie. run OpenBSD as a Xen
"guest"**), but AFAIK you still can't run OpenBSD Dom0s (ie. run
OpenBSD as a Xen "host"**).

See http://www.ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/

** This is a flawed metaphor, because Xen is a _hypervisor_, NOT an
emulator. The Domain U installs are not really running as guest OSes,
and the Domain zero installations are not really running as host OSes.
But you need at least one Dom0 (which when I last looked into this
still could not be OpenBSD) and you can install OpenBSD as a DomU.

I know very little, apart from having been curious once. If you want
to know more, you probably really should talk to Christoph Egger, who
did the actual porting work.

Thanks and regards,
--ropers